Star Trek - Shutting Down the Oracle

Kirk and Spock attempt to shut down the Oracle, but it becomes furious and makes them retreat (For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky)

[@james5460]

"Spock, we just need to unplug the router for thirty seconds and reboot the computer, that will do it."

[@larrytruelove7112]

“Captain, Windows has to get an update first.”

[@gidikalchhauser]

"Ouf, 500+ pages? Better have Spock handle this one"

[@johnbockelie3899]

The later episode " That which survives" also has a multigenerational ship built just like this one. However in this case everyone on board was long dead. " Captain kirk, I am here for you."

[@sandal_thong8631]

@@johnbockelie3899 They could easily have been camp or self-satire, like Spock's Brain. I think "That Which Survives" comes close with Spock misunderstanding Uhura by saying "I hit my head on the console."

[@randymillhouse791]

"Captain, temperature approaching normal July high in Dallas, TX."

[@johnshelton6434]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@MeganChic]

Sometimes I pretend my car is a shuttlecraft and I fire phasers at slower traffic in front of me

[@andrewjwheelerjr275]

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃.

[@lilibethdoherty295]

photon torpedoes work best in heavy traffic!@Slomofogo

[@geo386]

That's a good one.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Be careful -- NBC will cancel your car.

[@dtvjho]

Just transport them onto the shoulder.

[@masonbricke4568]

Notice how Spock, raised on Vulcan, isn't affected by the increasing heat. There are times when being a native of that planet is a definite advantage.

[@radioham67]

This show was, to yield a pun, light years ahead of its time. The scripts were superb. nice post - I often use the phrase in the episode's title.

[@mdarrenu]

Roddenberry wrote a lot while snorting coke

[@FollowingtheJourneyLifeStyle]

There are few episodes where someone other than Captain Kirk gets the ladies. I love it.

[@dbsql6238]

Starting at 2:42, the lady friendzones Bones. Off camera, she is riding Kirk.

[@FollowingtheJourneyLifeStyle]

🤣🤣🤣@@dbsql6238

[@stephentontz3853]

Agree, other crew members should be shown having some romantic interactions.

[@terrybardy2923]

McCoy is definitely a Southern Gentleman

[@michaellaplant9543]

Just like DeForest Kelley was in real life. 🙂

[@Bacopa68]

@@michaellaplant9543 For many years before Trek DeForest Kelly was known for playing the creepy CSA veteran bad guy in westerns. DeForest, known by his nickname "Dee", certainly has last name as first name. Using last names as first names is common in parts of the south and these names were once a kind of flex to show the mother's pedigree was as good as the father's.

[@robboyte1101]

I love Spock's line "Very simple problem, easy to correct". I've often used it when I've encountered a minor difficulty and will continue to use it.

[@jamalmccoy1982]

The woman of star trek tos were all beautiful that's the way women were back then blessed with natural beauty in their own personal way. ..

[@johnshelton6434]

Some of their beauty may be attributed to the way the lighting always shone on the women. Their faces and hair were always bathed in an aura of light. My brother, Lord rest his soul, kept pointing that out with several of the female guest stars, as well as Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

I love the way the book of knowledge was hidden in a complex system with a million volts if you get it wrong but to get into the control room well just push the button in the middle that will do it.

[@steelers6titles]

lol

[@Traderjoe]

To open the control room all someone had to do was push the one star in the center. You’d think someone dusting it might have found the secret methods accidentally at some point and realized that they were on a ship in space

[@CommanderBalok]

"How come everyone we send in here to dust the altar winds up dead at its base?"

[@Makeyourselfbig]

McCoy didn't need to search very much of the universe to find a cure. It was in the next room.

[@FredPlanatia]

hahaha, yeah. Wrong choice, and he doesn't even know it.

[@northernbettygirl]

I was glad it was found🙏🏼

[@puntabachata]

Probably just resented Spock for the next 100 years for curing him after saying "very simple problem. Easy to correct" 😂

[@eowyn1964]

such a cool story....I can remember seeing this as a 13-year-old...of course I loved the love story!

[@robertforsythe3280]

Star Trek, Light years ahead of its time.

[@TrevorKeenAnimation]

One of my favourite Star Trek babes!

[@Bacopa68]

Zarabeth was hotter.

[@studlygrish]

If you watch the shows carefully sometimes they leave a opening that could be a sequel in the future and this is one of them

[@sandal_thong8631]

It would have been interesting if McCoy stayed married and went between the colony and the Enterprise.

[@marcparella]

Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not a romantic lead.

[@thedavecorp]

It's S03E08. For The World is Hollow and I Have Touched The Sky

[@kentshelton3451]

Ms. Woodville was a beautiful woman. Rest in peace dear lady.

[@michaelschramm1064]

I like how the room looks you’re practically standing on Barnard’s Star with the overly red hue to indicate that it’s getting hot.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Good episode. It reminded me of the 1977 Doctor Who "The Face of Evil" starring Tom Baker as The Fourth Doctor. Natira was beautiful.

[@michaellaplant9543]

And a heartfelt performance by Kate Woodville, no question !

[@michaellaplant9543]

I also agree with you about some similarities between this episode and "The Face of Evil". Coincidence ? Who can say for certain ? Oooops! I honestly didn't see that I'd made a pun (at least not consciously) until after I'd typed that sentence ! Heh heh. Sorry, my bad. 👍🏾😊❓

[@dianabezerra2404]

Poor McCoy...

[@michaellaplant9543]

Unlucky in love - as per usual for the good Doctor. 💔

[@GestapoPussyRanch]

Natira stays with her people, but McCoy should hit it one last time.

[@williambrown6577]

Lol

[@michaellaplant9543]

As George Takei would put it : "Ohhhhh myyyyy !" 😌

[@FredPlanatia]

Will McCoy give me the hypo... again?

[@Bacopa68]

The people of Yonada could use the genetic diversity. But of course Natira had to stay. She's the prophetess of the people. They need her.

[@marks984]

Boldly go where no man has gone before.

[@steelers6titles]

This one was near the end of the three-year series run, after everyone knew that Trek had been cancelled for good. But the love-story angle puts it a notch above the ordinary. Otherwise, it's a standard "High Priestesses of the Green Computer" formulaic episode.

[@frankrizzo3922]

Fabulous... I love original series....😉

[@steelers6titles]

I believe this was the only episode to feature a love story involving McCoy. Kirk had "The Paradise Syndrome"; Spock "This Side of Paradise" and "All Our Yesterdays"; and Scotty had Lt. Mira Romaine in "The Lights of Zetar".

[@dskyyksd]

McCoy had something going on with that young female officer in "Shore Leave," or he certainly could have if he'd wanted to. Spock also scored with that Romulan commander as part of the plot to steal the cloaking device, but he ended up smitten by her.

[@steelers6titles]

@@dskyyksd Right.

[@jonearley]

Spock also had Droxine in The Cloud Minders

[@steelers6titles]

@@jonearley Right. I forgot some. Droxine (Diana Ewing) was hot. She dug Spock's ears.

[@steelers6titles]

Except that I don't think Mira Romaine fully returned Scotty's affections in "Zetar"; to her, he was pretty much just a very good older male friend.

[@xaenon]

The Orville had an episode based on a similar premise.

[@dbtech4562]

In 2021, I think I know what happened. It started up a benchmark and the CPU / GPU temps went up. It had nothing to do with the Oracle instance running. To shutdown Oracle, he needed to use srvctl and stop the instance after identify what instance was running on the machine. The users will eventually complain the system is down so Spock will have to start it back up again.

[@jameslasso1690]

Controls just like enterprise, What a fortunate coincidence that sure helped the set design crew

[@brianarbenz7206]

Same contractor.

[@dtvjho]

That's the Starfleet purchasing office for you.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Kirk looks at a panel with three lights on it. "We're back on course!"

[@johnshelton6434]

And the show's budget.

[@steelers6titles]

This episode, highlighting a romance for McCoy, was originally intended to be a two-parter.

[@RyanHayes1984]

Yonada: *closes in on the Enterprise* Enterprise: Uh guys? That thing is coming right at us!

[@cosmogoy1895]

ME TOO MEGANCHICK SINCE I WAS 16, NOW 57 & I STILL DO..... 🤓🌩

[@azurerainbow4637]

Dr. McCoy sure found Natira attractive.

[@hungrydragonvsfrightendhob7799]

He almost stayed back with her to marry her.

[@robertforsythe3280]

Gene Roddenberry sought to make a difference. I saw him long ago at a presentation by him at the Bayfront center 40 plus years ago. To Bad we do not have shows like this today.

[@dskyyksd]

Notice how you never see Scotty and the oracle together?

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

Dr McCoy was quite the ladies man wasn't he!

[@sandal_thong8631]

Not really. Things didn't work out well with him and his ex, Nancy Crater (a.k.a. The Salt Vampire), then he upset his date in "Shore Leave" by showing up arm-in-arm with a couple cabaret dancers. "All of my old friends look like doctors; all of [Jim's] looks like you" said McCoy to his ex, and prosecutor in "Court Martial."

[@johnshelton6434]

Yes he was.

[@jonearley]

Julie Newmar slapped the fire out of him in Friday's Child. Oochy-woochy coochy-coo

[@dbsql6238]

He got friend zoned in this one. Notice how he would come up with a solution for her issue to be together and she thinks up a new excuse quickly. Women break rules for Kirk but not McCoy.

[@user-xg7iz4ok5z]

This Lady is so beautiful and calming !

[@spudhead169]

At least Kirk didn't need to talk this computer to death, just turn it off.

[@michaellaplant9543]

Yes, if he would have made yet another speech to the computer, it would have taken up half the episode's running time -- I love Kirk, but facts are facts. 😊😁🖖🏽

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Huh, so hit "control" "alt" "Delete."

[@christinebutler7630]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

[@SicilianStealth]

Hello Mudda. Hello Fadda. Here I am at Camp Unada.

[@steelers6titles]

LOL

[@steelers6titles]

Oracle blasted me I am a hurtin' But with the local babes you know I still be flirtin'.

[@rubiks6]

One of my favorite Star Trek women because of her wisdom.

[@monkeyboy4746]

So Spock just wiggled a vacuum tube to get it going again?

[@Bacopa68]

Hey man, it was the sixties. Most of the time that actually worked.

[@monkeyboy4746]

@@Bacopa68 He didn't have to take it to the grocery/drug store to test it.

[@Bacopa68]

@@monkeyboy4746 I remember how common tube testers were. By the mid eighties you had to go to a hardware store.

[@notme1777]

Madness as usual

[@rubiks6]

I just want to know what exactly Kirk was looking at when he said, "Returning to marked headings."

[@1mrsohara]

Classic.

[@normaherrlich5662]

For once a guy read the manual.

[@juiceofsapho]

Actually a guy handed the manual to the Vulcan and he read it 🤣

[@hughmcaloon6506]

I love how The Oracle looks an awful lot like engineering on the Enterprise...

[@SnowyNightFlyer]

One of many times they would have been screwed without Spock.

[@infinightsky]

Looking back after all these years, you can see Roddenberrys atheism come out in episodes like this.

[@DEVOPS_R_US]

Not atheism but anti christian! He seems to have produced in Star Trek something both socialist and esoteric (masonic).

[@LordTalax]

@@DEVOPS_R_US AntiChristian? They went groggily eyed when they found out that Rome world was turning Christian.

[@michaellaplant9543]

That's a fair statement. While I prefer the term non-theist, I'd never dream of getting bogged down in silly nitpicking about nomenclature. Thanks. 👍🏾👍🏾

[@johnshelton6434]

@@LordTalax , but it was a well known fact that Roddenberry was a humanist and an atheist. It was said that he wanted no mention of God in any of the stories, though the episode you mentioned (Bread And Circuses) allowed for Christianity to be favorably mentioned. And when confronted by Apollo in Who Mourns For Adonais, , Kirk tells him, in so many words, "We find the one God sufficient." I saw Gene Roddenberry give a speech in Memphis in 1975. It's a shame that he was so against Christianity.

[@RaikenXion]

They all had some beauties though, ofviously Kirk had the most, but I dont think he had the best ones Natira is Dank and that woman who Spock fell for and he had to leave her back in that time, in a cold cave all alone on a planet, absolutely shocking. A red head, she was simply a heartbreaker.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

neither had a lack of beauties; but what about Kirk getting kissed(which im sure wasnt the only take knowing Bill) by Andrea the android in "What are Little Girls Made of"?

[@charlesaguilar1708]

You're speaking of Mariette Hartly and Sherry Jackson.

[@danbasta3677]

First off, lets all forget the womanizing stuff and look at this objectively. The Captain always was much more concerned with and about his ship, The Enterprise, matter of fact in the first season episode of Star Trek, The Corbinite Maneuver, he told the good Doctor, I already have a female to worry about, her name is the Enterprise, and in every episode he had encounters with women, his ship, the Enterprise ALWAYS took presidence over females. Spock, on the other hand did have at least two physicial situations with females, This Side Of Paradise is one, when he was under the influence of the spores, then the third season episode, as pointed out, All Our Yesterdays with Marriette Hartley, as Spock was reverting back to the unprincipaled, uncivilized Vulcans of 5,000 years before he was born. In Amok Time, he had to return back to Vulcan as he was in Pon Far, and in the third season episode, The Cloud Minders, Droxanne was deeply in love with him, however, he couldn't react logicly, however admitted that she was a beautiful work of art that is disturbing. And of course, in this episode For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched The Sky, this is the only time we see the good Doctor here get emotionally attached to a female, and actually marries her. All these episodes folks were written into the scripts by order of the producer of the series, Gene Roddenberry.

[@blackspider9561]

Spock also had a physical encounter with nurse chapel in the episode "Naked time" He lost his mind after that. In Amok Time nurse chapel made Spock his favorite soup. Of course he threw it out.

[@michaellaplant9543]

@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 Definitely ! In fact, Sherry Jackson said in an interview for one of the Star Trek TV specials, something along the lines of : Boy, when he kissed me, he REALLY kissed me ! Which anyone can see from her face, after they break the "clinch", if you'll pardon the expression. My editorial comment....Well can you blame him - just look at her ?! 👀 ☺️

[@domainofthesun4400]

that's Scotty's voice right? lol

[@robertforsythe3280]

Listen and understand

[@DMSProduktions]

HOT stuff!

[@atticstattic]

ctrl-alt-delete, Jim...

[@EdWeibe]

aint no tube checkers in space and radio shack is long gone

[@johnw2026]

I miss radio shack. I haven't found another store like it since most of them have shut down. Ain't none open within at least 45 miles of where I live .

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

@@johnw2026 Radio Shack has online stores.

[@johnw2026]

@@rebeccaquartieri5509 maybe so, but you can't check a vacuum tube online, lol!

[@xaenon]

@@rebeccaquartieri5509 Yes, but there's virtually nothing to set it apart from OTHER online retailers selling the exact same stuff.

[@xaenon]

@@johnw2026 Hard to check 'em offline, too. I haven't seen one of those 'tube checker' machines in decades. I'm old enough to remember them being in drug and grocery stores, and I know that 'professional technician' units were still made into the early 80s, but now? You gotta dig up vintage kit from eBay, swap meets, ham fests, and flea markets.

[@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn]

McCoy was a real Lady's Man..

[@cherkas009]

In the future what does indexed book mean they look at the book and Captain Kirk asks if it is indexed

[@rod5320]

Hey the Oracle could no longer threaten anyone or even speak! : (

[@charleswilson7371]

It lost its voice contract with the studio after deactivation.

[@michaellaplant9543]

@@charleswilson7371 😊😁👍🏾!!

[@masonbricke4568]

Perhaps this is the world where McCoy should have come to in his retirement. Probably would find her married with a houseful of kids. :)

[@ruthiethemagmacube5390]

I'm surprised there people even remember how to use a book... what am old fashioned earth relic!

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

Me too 😉

[@dbloyd2]

At 2:42, Bones gets friend zoned. She come up with a lie and he kept on pushing. If she really liked him, she would do anything. Since she doesn't like him she has to create some elaborate and Nobel reason she can't sleep with him on the Enterprise.

[@nicktw8688]

Na....she realises she is a natural leader for her people, that duty comes first.

[@larrytruelove7112]

Instantly, the book is legible to English speakers or instantly they learn to translate the book to English.

[@Bacopa68]

The book is in Fabrini, which Spock learned to read in an earlier episode. He was able to learn it then through music.

[@danielbrissenden2555]

Lucky Bones! She was a real babe!

[@g00gleminus96]

In this instance Spock says "temperature 111 degrees and rising." That has to be Fahrenheit because in Celcius they would not merely be uncomfortable, they'd be boiling - literally boiling because the boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celcius. Now, as we all know, Fahrenheit is not a scale that any scientist worth a god dam would ever use. So why the hell is Spock using Fahrenheit? He's not even an American, he's a Vulkan!

[@garyc5483]

They will. There is no escaping it.

[@jhwheuer]

Starscream91 lol, I did not know that trolls are watching TOS. Oh wait, we’re you pushed out by the bigger trolls and now you cannot troll liberals or Logan Paul viewers? Poor thing!

[@womanvirus821]

@Charles Ross qu'est ce qui ne faut pas entendre 🤦‍♂️😂 0°Kelvin corresponds to absolute zero (the lowest temperature in the universe) 0°Celsus corresponds to the temperature where water changes from solid to liquid (and 100°C : the boiling point of water) So, physical & chemical explanations. And Fahreinheit ? 0°F corresponds to the coldest temperature that mister Fahreinheit observed in a "bath of ice melting in a solution of commun salt"* (why ??). That have any sense. (*sources : philosophical transactions (London))

[@xo9442]

No, I'm pretty sure he's using Celsius. Being in a room with temperatures (for a short time) over 100° is not a death-sentence. are You wrote it yourself: "the boiling point of water is 100 degrees". But they are not swimming in water, they are standing in a room filled with air. The heat transfer rate from water is much greater than from air at the same temperature, so it would take much longer for the body to reach damaging temperatures. That's why it's possible to heat Saunas up 100° or even 110° Celsius.

[@michaellaplant9543]

They actually used Fahrenheit at least a few times, IIRC. Well, it WAS the 1960s, after all. 🌡️🔥 😌

[@BedsitBob]

Spock instantly knows how to operate the computer, yet he didn't know how to operate Gary Seven's computer?

[@johnedwards1321]

BedsitBob. It's simply amazing.

[@tonray9395]

Seven was from the future...this computer was present day

[@AegisNova]

BedsitBob Seven ran Windows. 😉

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

@Vane Fal No budget for new props......

[@michaellaplant9543]

Continuity problems much ? 😏😉😊

[@creusamariacantoiacantoia4756]

Me defendeu e me amou.

[@russedav5]

A big plot hole: a pretty stupid oracle not to use its previous effective method of electric shock that knocked them out.

[@russedav5]

Another big plot hole: why did the stupid oracle quit its punishment after the heat failed.

[@michaellaplant9543]

Not a very efficient computer, that's for doggone sure ! Perhaps it was manufactured in North Korea. 😁

[@sandal_thong8631]

Yeah. It could understand the concept of off-worlders, allowing one to marry its priestess, but not that it may be off-course and in need of assistance.

[@johnshelton6434]

@@russedav5 Spock probably disabled it whenever he neutralized the heat.

[@joemunch58]

Why was the oracle a jerk?

[@edydon]

I love Star Trek - but Gene Roddenberry never missed a chance to take potshots at religion

[@dianewilliams1125]

Bones should have stayed! Dummy,he got the chick!😊😊😊

[@creusamariacantoiacantoia4756]

Deus brigou por mim.

[@namafarm]

just like The Star Lost Canadian series!!

[@socksumi]

Star Lost... worst sci fi series ever made.

[@michaellaplant9543]

I've heard of that series, but never had the chance to see it.

[@roberthaworth8991]

@@michaellaplant9543 Oooohh, you are missing a guilty pleasure. Huge budget (by Canadian TV standards of the time) -- although there's no evidence of it on the screen, due to faulty special FX technology and general mismanagement of the production. Wooden acting, horrible sound; trite, cheap-looking costumes and props. The scripts started OK, but then went downhill.

[@billr3053]

Walter Koenig (Chekov) was in two episodes.

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

The Matrix.

[@thandokhan1962]

00:39 CTRL+ALT+SHIFT ????

[@dbsql6238]

Wow, you are right. Before it was invented in our timeline even.

[@TheRantingCabbie]

4:55 No, those were the first cup holders Chrysler came up with.

[@xaenon]

They actually do resemble something Chrysler-based. Look up their old HiWay HiFi gadget. A factory-installed record player (!). It was reasonably popular option but plagued with problems, such as being (among other things) a record player IN A CAR. Only a year or two in the mid-1950s.

[@dariusdaguerre3535]

Kate Woodville is heart-meltingly beautiful. In general, the beautiful women of TOS were presented as numinous-not like the later series, when they were more often sluts.

[@paulhunter6742]

Not all of them, what about woman stole Spock's Brain. That Salt eating shape shifter in first season Star Trek-TOS. That little crew woman ages 120 years in the Deadly Years.

[@KevanleeRice]

Spook can fisa vw woth tweedets

[@dmer-zy3rb]

2:58 what the hell was wrong with McCoys makeup in this episode? he looks like trump, or Michael Jackson in his last desperate attempts to pretend to have a dark skin tone. its not evened out either.

[@samiamgreeneggaandham]

I would not mind punishing that woman. I would love to be the Oracle and punish her, especially since she does not fear punishment. That is my kind of woman.

[@p.rabbitt4914]

What is this madness??? How did I miss seeing this episode.. It so tacky!

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

tacky??? just come out of the closet ehh??

[@michaellaplant9543]

Tacky ? I dunno about that.

[@robluck21]

Too many attacks on faith on star trek, all of them with great rationale explanations of course

[@sandal_thong8631]

What is "faith" but a logical fallacy whereby you believe something without evidence and based on someone's say-so? Consider believing in Santa Claus. Eventually unless you're really weird or your parents trick you with some kind of fantastical experience (like I heard on NPR once) you come to believe it's not true. But hardly anyone tells you that this religious thing was just made up, so you'd behave yourself and not have sex before marriage, among other things.

[@dankerns9441]

Nothing but expository dialogue. Worst episode ever.

[@gregh7457]

let me guess. your favorite episode was the space hippies

[@michaellaplant9543]

Not by a long shot, in my view. Try watching -- or better yet, DON'T try watching -- The Way to Eden. 😊😉😌

[@berkeleyfuller-lewis3442]

The heroine is a classic example of Cultish circular logic.

[@sarcasticscottsman8581]

And she is both pretty in face and well-constructed otherwise.!!!

[@steelers6titles]

Actress Kate Woodville was married to Patrick Macnee (John Steed in "The Avengers").